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“The Whisper Man” begins with a place that looks ordinary enough to offer a grieving family a fresh start. Tom Kennedy, a widowed crime writer, moves with his young son Jake after the death of his wife, hoping that a quieter life might help them recover. Instead, Jake disappears, and Tom is forced back into…
Ridley Scott’s “The Dog Stars” imagines Colorado after civilization has largely disappeared. A devastating pandemic has killed most of the population, leaving pilot Hig, his dog Jasper and the heavily armed Bangley to protect an isolated airfield from anyone who gets too close. Hig still takes his aging Cessna into the sky, partly to scout…
Netflix’s “The Secret Woman” begins with the kind of life its heroine would have little reason to question. Louise Andersen lives with her partner Joachim on the Norwegian island of Hidra, where she runs a small cafe and appears to have found a quiet corner of the world for herself. Then a stranger tells her…
Lifetime’s “The Wrong Housemaid” turns an ordinary family home into the most dangerous place Mona could possibly be. Ten years after escaping a violent husband, the single mother has built a quieter life for herself and her teenage daughter, Denise, using new identities to stay hidden. That security begins to collapse when a woman enters…
“The Last Sunrise” arrives on Prime Video on August 26 with Mallorca doing far more than supplying pretty vacation shots. Maia Reficco stars as Oriah “Ry” Pera, a college student whose chronic illness and her mother’s protectiveness have kept much of her life carefully controlled. A summer move to Mallorca changes that when she meets…
“Finding Emily” turns a missing phone-number digit into an excuse to explore Manchester almost street by street. Spike Fearn plays Owen, a musician and university sound technician who meets a girl named Emily during a night out and believes he has found someone special. The problem arrives the next morning, when he realizes the number…
A road trip becomes impossible to escape in “Passenger,” the supernatural horror film directed by Andre Ovredal. Jacob Scipio and Lou Llobell play Tyler and Maddie, a young couple traveling together in a van when they stop at the scene of a brutal highway accident. They continue driving, only to discover that something called the…
“Her Husband’s Double Life” starts with the sort of emergency call that destroys several lives at once. Tanisha Thammavongsa plays Carrie Morgan, a paramedic who arrives at a serious car accident and recognizes Timothy Blake, the man with whom she has been planning her future. He is not alone. Sarah Cleveland’s Brianna Blake is beside…
A mislabeled package becomes the unlikely starting point for romance in Hallmark’s “Love Finds You.” Aimee Teegarden plays Alex, a jewelry designer who opens a parcel that was never meant for her and becomes convinced its contents reveal something about the man who should have received it. Finding that stranger means retracing the package’s route…
“The Babysitter’s Double Life” begins with a college student’s financial problem and lets one bad solution create another. Courtney Fulk stars as Lia Collins, a senior at a prestigious college whose scholarship suddenly disappears. Needing money, Lia draws inspiration from her babysitting job for Ethan, a wealthy recently separated father, and launches a service pairing…
“The Caretaker Next Door” gives its heroine what appears to be the ideal hiding place and then steadily turns it against her. Eve Mauro stars as Willow Stevenson, a prosecutor whose role in putting a dangerous criminal behind bars leaves her worried about retaliation. Rather than remain in the city, Willow retreats to the farmhouse…
“Facing El Chapo” approaches one of Mexico’s most notorious criminal cases from an unusual angle. Rather than building another biography around Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, director Chava Cartas concentrates on two federal officers whose routine patrol becomes anything but routine after they encounter the fugitive cartel boss. Alfonso Herrera plays Carmona opposite Noe Hernandez as…
